I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling… — Jim Bridwell Copy Share Image
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
“you use your whole body like you did when you played as a kid. Grown-up amusements don’t allow for crawling and wriggling,… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak:… — Steve Daines Copy Share Image
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
In climbing you are always faced with new problems in which you must perform using intuitive movements, and then later analyze them… — Wolfgang Gullich Copy Share Image
I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I think retirement is a little bit like death. I want to always be incredibly engaged and challenged, but in climbing, you… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get… — Kyle Gallner Copy Share Image
Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go… — Wilfrid Noyce Copy Share Image
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered,… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Britain has some of the finest climbing on the planet, with a sense of wilderness that rivals anywhere else on earth. You… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
Jerome was sliding and climbing on top of me and it felt like it had the night before, like a crushing weight.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries… — William Davis Copy Share Image
Action is a way of externalizing an emotional state. You might not be running, leaping, climbing and doing all that. But, the… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
To be clear, I normally climb with a rope and partner. Free-soloing makes up only a small percentage of my total climbing.… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I never expected to make a living from climbing, but it got to the point where I either had to get a… — Ueli Steck Copy Share Image
In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I… — Erik Weihenmayer Copy Share Image
She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking… — Aron Ralston Copy Share Image
Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you have to fall from the mountain to realize what you are climbing for. Obstacles were put in our way to… — Mhargs Abuda Copy Share Image
It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek) No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“climbing a mountain represents a chance to be briefly free oneself of the small concerns of our common lives, to strip off… — Mateo Cabello Copy Share Image
“The fact that I am still alive, when so many friends and others climbing the 8000ers have died is humbling. ... It… — Alan Hinkes Copy Share Image
